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Creative kids at New Life Christian Fellowship Church got a crash course in filmmaking this week as they took part in the Afterglow Filmmaking Workshop. Fifteen kids ages 10-15 wrote and filmed two movies based on biblical proverbs. “Team Drippy” created a film entitled “Player Gets Played” based on Proverbs 10:12. “Hatred stirs up conflict, […]

Friends and Neighbors! We are pleased to show off the first Family Services Directory for Grenada County, as published in the Grenada Star in the Back to School Edition last Friday. Download here: Grenada Family Services Directory 2013-14, send us your comments, corrections and additions, and of course your ideas and donations. This first directory is […]

The White House recently released a series of news releases that gives estimated revenue figures for programs proposed under the President’s Early Learning Initiative. If you’d like a quick look at the estimates, go to http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/earlylearning/increasing-access/index.html to find individual state fact sheets that outline what your state might receive under the proposal.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes a real man to be a daddy. – Anonymous. Hummm, well said. Dads are those influences in your life that you turn to when you need advice. Dads are there for their children’s activities and encourage them to be true to themselves. Dads teach their children to […]

The Grenada Farmer’s Market is certified through MSU Extension Service and registered with Mississippi MarketMaker™, an Internet tool administered by the Mississippi State University Extension Service that connects consumers with growers, producers, and farmers’ markets. The market is also registered in the USDA National Farmers Market Directory, a searchable database designed to provide the public […]

Grenada Gives 365 held its second annual GG365 Voting Celebration on April 22, and the packed room was alive with excitement and anticipation. Eight nonprofit finalists competed for one of the five $2, 000.00 grants to be awarded and four high school senior finalists competed for one scholarship for $1,000.00 to the college of choice. […]

Once the retail center of the area, Grenada’s downtown began to languish in the 1960s. As Interstate 55 was completed and Walmart arrived, retail traffic began moving out and downtown was left with many underused or vacant buildings and no people. Compounding those issues, common to many communities, was the declining employment in the […]

Who remembers the movie, Field of Dreams? Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) continuously hears a voice that says, “Build it he will come.” He learns later, that it was in his destiny to build a baseball diamond in his corn fields. Along the journey, he is visited by spirits of the great baseball players from the […]

Do you have a dream? As a child growing up on a small farm, I dreamed of the kind of town I would live in when I grew up. There would be lots of lights from the buildings in the night, beautiful flowers adorning the streets, and lots of activities to do on the weekend. […]